EP0477790B1 - Appareil de massage du cuir chevelu - Google Patents

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EP0477790B1
EP0477790B1 EP91116007A EP91116007A EP0477790B1 EP 0477790 B1 EP0477790 B1 EP 0477790B1 EP 91116007 A EP91116007 A EP 91116007A EP 91116007 A EP91116007 A EP 91116007A EP 0477790 B1 EP0477790 B1 EP 0477790B1
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Albert Schmidhauser
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
    • A61H7/00—Devices for suction-kneading massage; Devices for massaging the skin by rubbing or brushing not otherwise provided for
    • A61H7/006—Helmets for head-massage
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S601/00—Surgery: kinesitherapy
    • Y10S601/14—Vibrator applied to specific external body area
    • Y10S601/15—Head, face, neck, scalp
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S601/00—Surgery: kinesitherapy
    • Y10S601/14—Vibrator applied to specific external body area
    • Y10S601/16—Genital area

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  • scalp massage The beneficial effects of scalp massage are well known. They especially promote hair regrowth or prevent it from falling out.
  • scalp massage causes relaxation, a feeling of well-being and helps to effectively combat stress.
  • Document WO-A-88/01500 describes a scalp massage device comprising a hoop along which massage blocks can slide.
  • Each massage block includes a vibration generator transmitting these vibrations to a flexible wall intended to be in contact with the scalp.
  • a massage of the entire scalp is obtained.
  • Such a device is inadequate because it requires a plurality of complex massage bodies, containing a vibration generator, and is of long and tedious use, since it is necessary to move the hoop and said blocks successively a very large number of times to obtain a complete massage.
  • Document CH-A-663.537 describes a scalp massage device comprising a helmet formed by an external envelope and an internal envelope which can be displaced relative to each other, under the action of drive means .
  • the internal envelope is provided with fingers applied pneumatically against the scalp of the user causing a massage of the latter, or of certain points thereof, when they are entrained in the movements of the internal envelope, l helmet outer shell being fixed on the head of the user.
  • This device is complicated to manufacture and especially to use because it is necessary, the external envelope of the helmet being fixed to a support, that the user keeps his head in a determined position during the whole time of the massage.
  • Document CH-A-557,679 describes a scalp massage device comprising a helmet intended to be fixed on the head of the user by a frontal band.
  • This helmet is provided with a plurality of fingers applied against the scalp of the user and driven by a drive system in opposite movements.
  • the number of fingers and their training makes the device complex and only a limited number of points on the scalp can undergo massage.
  • Document WO-A-79/00974 describes an apparatus for massaging the scalp, in which a plurality of massage elements are actuated by an electric motor. However the scalp is surrounded by an elastic hoop at a distance. Said hoop has a central ridge extending in the direction of the length of the head, from the ridge extending on both sides of the fan-shaped support bands with elastic bands guided by sliding therein. The central ridge supports training elements and the bands include massage elements.
  • the object of the present invention is the production of a scalp massage device which is simple to carry out, and therefore of a reduced cost, which makes it possible to act on the entire scalp automatically, it is that is to say without the intervention of the user or of a nursing staff, requiring no intervention during its use and being fixed directly on the head of the user so that the latter is free to move during the massage so that he can go on during this time to other occupations.
  • the massage device according to the invention is distinguished by the characteristics listed in claim 1.
  • the dependent claims 2 to 10 show preferred embodiments according to the invention.
  • the text of all claims is explicitly included in the content of the description by reference.
  • the attached drawing illustrates schematically and by way of example an embodiment of the massage device according to the invention.
  • Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device in the massage position on the head of a user.
  • FIG. 2 is a longitudinal section of the massage device illustrated in FIG. 1.
  • Figure 3 is a bottom view illustrating the interior of the massage apparatus.
  • the capillary or scalp massage device is based on a massage principle totally different from previous devices which all use massage fingers or organs, in contact with the scalp, with their own movements and causing localized massage areas. around each of these massage fingers.
  • the present capillary or scalp massage device has a limited number of points of contact with the scalp, one to three at the top of the skull, a frontal and two parieto-temporal which are all mounted on the same support. Means are provided for applying at least some of these contact points, generally the frontal contact point and the two parieto-temporal contact points, against the scalp so as to rigidly fix the support to the user's scalp.
  • the apparatus also includes means making it possible to set the support in cyclical alternating movements causing the scalp to be driven by the contact points and therefore an oscillating or rotary movement relative to the skull of the user, thus causing a massage. of the whole scalp.
  • the support consists of a rigid helmet 1 of molded synthetic material.
  • This helmet is provided in its central area with three fixed supports or adjustable contact points arranged in a triangle around the axis of the helmet.
  • Each of these fixed supports is formed by an orientable pad 2 having a flexible pad 3 mounted on a ball joint 4 forming the end of a screw 5 passing through the helmet and cooperating with a nut 6.
  • the helmet is provided in its frontal zone and in its parieto-temporal zones with holes or holes 7, seven holes in each of these zones in the example illustrated, intended for fixing and positioning in each of these three zones with a removable contact point.
  • At least one of these removable contact points is inflatable, in the example illustrated the three removable contact points are inflatable.
  • Each removable contact point comprises a guide formed by a tubular element 8 engaged in one of the holes 7 in one of the three zones secured to a washer or flange 9 which comes to bear against the internal surface of the helmet 1.
  • Each of these removable contact points also comprise a piston, the rod 10 of which is engaged in the tubular element 8 and slides therein and the front part 11 of which is provided with a deformable pad 12 intended to come into contact with the scalp of the user.
  • a body 13 of elastic foam is located between the front part 11 of the piston and the washer 9 of the guide.
  • a deformable and waterproof bellows 14 connects this washer 9 to the front part 11 of the piston creating a sealed chamber.
  • Each of these three sealed chambers is connected by a pipe 15 to a pressurization pipe 16, the free end of which is connected to a swelling bulb 17 by a valve 18.
  • the helmet 1 has in its central part or at its top an orifice giving passage to a tubular casing 19 rigidly fixed to the helmet 1 by screws 20 for example.
  • This casing 19 contains an electric motor 21, the drive shaft of which drives a reduction gear 22 and the output shaft 23 of which is secured to a cylindrical yoke 24 by a pin 25.
  • This yoke 24 is threaded into a housing d 'an arm 26 which is secured to the yoke 24 using a screw 27.
  • This arm extends substantially parallel to the outer surface of the helmet over a distance of between 1/3 and 2/3 approximately of the height of the helmet.
  • the free end of this arm 26 comprises an unbalance 28 trapped in the material of the arm during its molding or fixed in any other way to this arm 26.
  • This arm 26 and this unbalance 28 constitute an eccentric.
  • the motor 21 is supplied by an electric cable 29, the end of which is provided with a male electrical supply plug 30. It is obvious that the electric motor 21 could also be supplied by batteries or accumulators which could be housed in the arm 26 for example in place of the unbalance 28.
  • the helmet 1 being fixed on the head of the user and the power supply of the motor being able to be done by accumulator, incorporated or not in the arm 26, the user is free to move and move during the massage.
  • this device is simple and inexpensive to manufacture due to the limited number of contact points and the fact that these are static and must not be driven individually in movement to cause the massage but are integral with the helmet 1.
  • the user opens the valve 18 releasing the pressure in the bellows 14 which allows the helmet to be removed.
  • the helmet can be provided with a single fixed contact point which would for example be fixed on the end of the casing 19 extending inside the helmet 1.
  • the removable contact points 8-14 could be inflatable.
  • the contact points 8-14 could only have one possible position relative to the helmet.
  • the pressure applied to the removable contact points 8-14 can be obtained by elastic means, springs, silent block, etc. allowing to remove the conduits 15, 16 and the bulb 17 as well as the valve 18.
  • the components of the device are made of molded or injected plastic and are therefore light and inexpensive.
  • the assembly of the assembly is very simple and does not require a precision template.
  • the arm 26 provided with its unbalance 28 can be replaced by an eccentric driven in rotation by the motor 21, eccentric which may for example have the shape of a disc provided with at least one perforation or a variable thickness disc. Any other space-saving shape or conformation can be provided for this eccentric.

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  • Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
  • Dermatology (AREA)
  • Epidemiology (AREA)
  • Pain & Pain Management (AREA)
  • Physical Education & Sports Medicine (AREA)
  • Rehabilitation Therapy (AREA)
  • Life Sciences & Earth Sciences (AREA)
  • Animal Behavior & Ethology (AREA)
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  • Massaging Devices (AREA)
  • Percussion Or Vibration Massage (AREA)
EP91116007A 1990-09-28 1991-09-20 Appareil de massage du cuir chevelu Expired - Lifetime EP0477790B1 (fr)

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CH3124/90A CH682629A5 (fr) 1990-09-28 1990-09-28 Appareil de massage du cuir chevelu.

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ATE141492T1 (de) 1996-09-15
EP0477790A1 (fr) 1992-04-01
DE69121499T2 (de) 1997-03-27

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